Read and reply to reviews
Customers can leave reviews of your business by following these steps.
Reviews from your customers can provide valuable feedback for your business, and replying to reviews can help build your customers' trust. When you reply to a review, your response will appear below your customer's review on Google Search and Maps under the label "Response from the owner". People on Google will see both the customer review and your response when they look at your Google reviews.
To see and respond to reviews left by Google users, first verify your business, then follow the steps below.
- Sign in to Google My Business.
- If you have multiple locations, open the one you'd like to manage.
- Click Reviews from the menu. (Note that your business needs to be verified in order to respond to reviews.)
- Click Respond to respond to a customer review.
- Write a response and click Submit.
- Open the Google My Business app.
- Tap the menu icon
> Reviews. (Note that your business needs to be verified in order to respond to reviews.)
- Tap RESPOND NOW to reply to the reviewer.
> Reviews. (Note that your business needs to be Note that you’ll be posting publicly as your business when you reply to reviews. Replies to reviews may not appear across Google immediately.
Tips for responding to reviews
Business owner responses allow you to build relationships with customers, but they’re also public. When replying to your customers, keep the following guidelines in mind:
- Be nice and don’t get personal. This isn’t just a guideline—it’s also a good idea as a business owner. It's difficult to win an argument with a frustrated customer, and you want to avoid burning bridges. Keep your responses useful, readable, and courteous. In addition, responses should comply with our local content policy.
- Keep it short and sweet. Users are looking for useful and genuine responses, but they can easily be overwhelmed by a long response.
- Thank your reviewers. Respond to happy reviewers when you have new or relevant information to share. You don’t need to thank every reviewer publicly, since each response reaches lots of customers.
- Be a friend, not a salesperson. Your reviewers are already customers, so there’s no need to offer incentives or advertisements. Tell reviewers something new about your business, or share something they might not have learned from their first visit.
If you believe that a Google review violates the posting guidelines, you can flag it as inappropriate by clicking the three dot menu icon 
